Apple is also expected to announce an iTunes rental service and a new version of Apple TV. (Source: IPhone News)

Could Cupertino be cooking up other surprises -- new iPads, MacBook Air updates, are a few possibilities

On
September 7, Bloombergis
reporting that Apple will hold a special event in San
Francisco. Special events have meant one thing for Apple in the
past -- product launches. And September has traditionally
become Apple's
time to air new iPods.

Bloomberg believes
that at least one of the items revealed at the event will be a $99
Apple TV and 99 cent, 48-hour rentals via iTunes. The new
campaign would be geared at reviving the 3-year-old product that's
perhaps the only
laggard in Apple's successful stable. And it would
also try to fend off Netflix, Hulu,
and other streaming video services.

News Corp. (owners of
Fox), CBS Corp., NBC Universal, and Walt Disney Co (owners of ABC)
are all reportedly onboard with the project.

A new iPod Touch,
likely a clone of the iPhone 4, sans GSM wireless 3G hardware, is
also expected to launch in September. The key feature there
will be the inclusion of Apple's higher resolution "Retina
Display" (960x640 pixels) currently found on the iPhone 4.
A hot topic of speculation at this point is whether the MP3 player
will feature a front-facing camera, which could allow VoIP video
calling over using Apple's
FaceTime.

Likewise,
updated iPod Nano, Shuffle, and Classic seem likely as they typically
see September upgrades. The iPod Nano is currently in its
fourth generation, the Shuffle is in its third generation (with some
minor revisions), and iPod Classic has seen six generations.

Looking
at Apple's other products, the MacBook was last updated
in May and the MacBook Pro saw an
April upgrade, so they seem unlikely candidates for new
releases.

The Mac Pro, Apple's high end desktop
was quietly
upgraded on August 9, ditching NVIDIA's GeForce GT 120 for the
ATI Radeon HD 5770 and getting the option of using two 2.66 GHz
6-core Gulftown
Intel Xeon (X5650) processors with 12 MB of L3 cache (up from the
previous max of two four-core
processors).

The iMac received an i3/i5 upgrade in July.
And the Mac Mini saw a June
update. Thus it is unlikely that Apple will reveal any new
desktops. More likely is that Apple could upgrade the MacBook
Air, its ultra-thin design which has languished without an update
since June 2009.

"Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine." -- Bill Gates